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Vikas Sharma
Vikas Sharma

Reputation: 159

Is there any way to find Ansible hostname through Client's machine

I am a beginner in Ansible.

I have one server - app.example.com in which I have installed Ansible.

I have 2 Client machines - Web1.example.com and Web2.example.com.

My question is how I will know from the Client machine that the Ansible server is app.example.com

Like from the Ansible server I can find out all Client's machines in /etc/Ansible/hosts

Upvotes: 0

Views: 301

Answers (1)

Jack
Jack

Reputation: 6168

Assuming you know the name of the service account (such as ansible) that Ansible uses on the client, and that Ansible has logged in at some time, look in /var/log/secure. You should see an entry like this:

Aug 25 09:29:02 Client1 sshd[1343]: Accepted publickey for ansible from 192.168.124.8 port 59036 ssh2: RSA SHA256:FL2me6GmqX6SAx5CI0hJ/ZXXStnmrCdCtBbfBlk5N5E

We see is logged in from 192.168.124.8.

Now...

$ getent hosts 192.168.124.8
192.168.124.8   AnsibleTower

So the hostname of the Ansible Controller is AnsibleTower.

Upvotes: 1

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